Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday said his climate fund would pour $1.5 billion into projects with the United States if the government enacts a program to cut carbon emissions currently working its way through Congress.
Environment
Aug 13, 2021
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Evacuation orders were widened Thursday as California's biggest wildfire raged through the state's tinder-dry landscape, laying waste to hundreds of square miles (kilometers).
Environment
Aug 6, 2021
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The largest wildfire in California has razed a small town in the state's parched northeast, warping street lights and destroying historic buildings hours after residents were ordered to flee.
Environment
Aug 5, 2021
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Over the past two years, the municipality of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and Google have collaborated on Project Air View, in which the Amsterdam air quality was measured by two Street View cars with special measuring equipment. ...
Environment
Jul 13, 2021
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Our changing relationship with cash and dramatically reduced foot traffic in CBDs around the globe has prompted street performers to find different ways to generate income and sustain their careers.
Economics & Business
Jul 1, 2021
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A city's street names can provide a glimpse into its cultural value system and a way to quantify cultural indicators, according to a study published June 30, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Melanie Bancilhon from ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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The theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 virus being leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China was recently given new life following an explosive article in the Wall Street Journal(WSJ), ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2021
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Many employees have come to prefer working from home after being forced to do so more than a year ago when the pandemic started. By some estimates, at least one-quarter of employees will still be working remotely multiple ...
Economics & Business
Jun 18, 2021
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The one constant during the pandemic is change, especially as it relates to how we use space. Since early 2020, a flurry of physical changes have taken place in our everyday lives, reshaping everything from how and where ...
Social Sciences
Jun 8, 2021
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Road verges cover 1.2% of land in Great Britain—an area the size of Dorset—and could be managed to help wildlife, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2021
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